{"id":97,"date":"2007-09-09T14:47:02","date_gmt":"2007-09-09T21:47:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.orbswarm.com\/2007\/09\/09\/valley-wag-loves-us\/"},"modified":"2019-11-03T15:43:51","modified_gmt":"2019-11-03T22:43:51","slug":"valley-wag-loves-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.orbswarm.com\/2007\/09\/09\/valley-wag-loves-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Valley Wag loves us!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00c2\u00a0“One of the neatest things I have seen in the self-expressive miasma that is Burning Man<\/a>, the countercultural arts festival here in Nevada’s Black Rock Desert, has been The Orb Swarm,<\/a> a group of spherical robots designed to roll around the playa and interact with participants with lights, motion and sound.”<\/p>\n

http:\/\/valleywag.com\/tech\/burning-man\/the-orb-swarm-rules-the-night-295729.php<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00c2\u00a0“One of the neatest things I have seen in the self-expressive miasma that is Burning Man, the countercultural arts festival here in Nevada’s Black Rock Desert, has been The Orb Swarm, a group of spherical robots designed to roll around the playa and interact with participants with lights, motion and sound.” http:\/\/valleywag.com\/tech\/burning-man\/the-orb-swarm-rules-the-night-295729.php<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":144,"url":"http:\/\/blog.orbswarm.com\/2008\/04\/04\/what-is-swarm\/","url_meta":{"origin":97,"position":0},"title":"What is SWARM?","date":"April 4, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"SWARM is a kinetic art work consisting of multiple semi-autonomous spherical robots (\"Orbs\") that roll under their own power. 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